Books on Reserve (Fall 2011)

Multiple copies of these books are on reserve in the library. Many of these books are also available in the bookstore. See Course Book List for listing by week.

See Class Schedule for listings of specific required and supplementary readings from these books, as well as articles on reserve in folders in the library.

Week One

  • Geertz, Clifford 1966. The Interpretation of Cultures (many copies)

Week Two

  • Basso, Keith. Portraits of the Whiteman. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1979.
  • Fox, ed. Recapturing Anthropology.

Week Three

  • Boas, Franz. 1896. Race, Language and Culture (9 copies)
  • Malinowski, Bronislaw 1922. Argonauts of the Western Pacific. (19 copies)
  • Bohannon and Glazer, eds. High Points in Anthropology. (many copies)
  • Fabian, Johannes. Time and the Other, 1983.

Weeks Four-Five

  • Boas, Franz. 1896. Race, Language and Culture (10 copies)
  • Sapir, Edward. Edward Sapir: Selected Writings in Language, Culture, and Personality, (10 copies)
  • Lowie, Robert, 1935. The Crow Indians (13 copies)
  • Lowie, Robert. Robert H. Lowie, Ethnologist: A Personal Record. (6 copies)
  • Deloria, Vine. Custer Died for our Sins. 1969

Week Six

  • Durkheim, Emile. Durkheim, Emile. Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Fields translation (Do not use the Swain translation). New York: the Free Press, 1995 (1912).

Week Seven

  • Malinowski, Bronislaw 1922. Argonauts of the Western Pacific. (19 copies)
  • Mauss, Marcel. 1925. The Gift (many copies)

Week Eight

  • Structure and function in primitive society : essays and addresses / by A.R. Radcliffe-Brown ; with a foreword by E. E. Evans- Pritchard and Fred Eggan, Glencoe, Ill. : Free Press;
  • African Political Systems, ed. Myer Fortes and E.E. Evans-Pritchard, Oxford: Oxford UP.
  • Bohannon and Glazer, eds. High Points in Anthropology. (many copies)
  • Evans-Pritchard, E.E. The Nuer. (9 copies).

Week Nine

  • Levi-Strauss, Claude. The Savage Mind.
  • Geertz, Clifford 1966. The Interpretation of Cultures (many copies)

WeekTen

  • Turner, Victor. The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual, Ithaca: Cornell University Press (many copies)
  • Geertz, Clifford 1966. The Interpretation of Cultures (many copies)

Week Eleven

  • Tucker, Robert, Ed. The Marx-Engels Reader. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1978 (many copies)
  • Wolf, Eric. Europe and the People Without History, Berkeley: University of California Press (10 copies)
  • Culture, Power, History. N. Dirks, et al., eds.

Week Twelve

  • Ortner, Sherry. Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996

Weeks Thirteen-Fourteen

  • Tsing, Anna. 1993. In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place. (10 copies).

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